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Fed : the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System see also Federal Reserve System in the Important Agencies section ...

Fed. R. App. P.

Fed. R. App. P. Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure ...

Fed. R. Civ. P.

Fed. R. Civ. P. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure see also the Important Laws section ...

Fed. R. Crim. P.

Fed. R. Crim. P. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure see also the Important Laws section ...

Fed. R. Evid.

Fed. R. Evid. Federal Rules of Evidence see also the Important Laws section ...

High Court, means any court which is deemed for the purposes of this Constitution to be a High Court for any State and includes--(a) any Court in the territory of India constituted or reconstituted under this Constitution as a High Court, and(b) any other Court in the territory of India which may be declared by Parliament by law to be a High Court for all or any of the purposes of this Con-stitution. [Constitution of India, Article 366(14)]The High Court in s. 10F of the Companies Act means the High Court having jurisdiction in relation to the place at which the registered office of the company concerned is situate as indicated by s. 2(11) read with s. 10(1) (a) of the Act, Strideuell Leathers (P) Ltd. v. Bhankepur Simbhaoli Beverages Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 158 (165): (1994) 1 SCC 34. (Companies Act, 1956, s. 10F)Every High Court shall be a Court of record meaning thereby all the original record of the Court will be preserved by the said Court and it shall have all the powers of such a supe...

High Steward, Court of the Lord

High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of Lord High Steward is very ancient, and was formerly hereditary, or held for life, or dum bene se gesserit; but it has been for many centuries granted pro hac vice only, and always to a lord of Parliament. When, therefore, such an indictment is found by a grand jury of freeholders in the King's Bench, or at the assizes before a judge of oyer and terminer, it is removed by a writ of certiorari into the Court of the Lord High Steward, which alone has power to determine it.The sovereign, in case a peer be indicted for treason, felony, or misprision, appoints a Lord High Ste-ward pro vice, by commission under the Great Seal, which, reciting the indictment so found, gives him power to receive and try it secundum legem et consuetudinem Angli'. When the indictment is regularly removed by certiorari, ...

High Court of Justice

High Court of Justice. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, has replaced with amendments the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). The earlier Act abolished the former Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and in their place established a Supreme Court of Judicature (see that title), consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal. The High Court is now a Superior Court of Record, and has vested in it, by s. 16 of the Act of 1873, amended by ss. 9 and 33 of the Judicature Act, 1875, the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the following Courts, viz.: '(1) The High Court of Chancery; (2) The Court of King's Bench; (3) The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; (4) The Court of Exchequer; (5) The Court of Admiralty; (6) The Court of Probate; (7) The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; (8) The Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster; (9) The Court of Pleas at Durham; (10) The Courts created by Commissions of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, or any such C...

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